FRIDAY
Fabruwy 23. 1996
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THURSDAY'S STAR
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56 5/ win met the
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HIGH SCORERS
AtMVMlw (UA) 16
Boy** (UO) 16
B*m** (UA) 14
(UO) 14
Parttoi* (UA) 12
Curt* (UO) 7
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Amorm 42
Otwgon (4-t7) 24
Amona (38) 38
UP NEXT
Orrftm UiAn
t»» ASU
Blazers are
no trading
wizards
he trading deadline j
Ah, the time of the
year that players and
( uachtis imi\ come
together and lie honest about
their feelings for one anoth
er The time of the year that
< oachaa and players ian sit
down and talk about their
love-hale relationships
The time of the year when
the Portland Trsil Blazers
turn ugly
Now. tiaving grown up in
Portland. I have heard and
seen a thing or two about the
Blazers.
While that
(too* nuta
Rlaznr
Helutvet
make, i
think I ani
fairly well !
versed In
the history
ami hep
penings of
Portland’s most popular
sports franchise
1 remember Jack Ramsey's
departure. Mike Schuler's
firing and Rick Adleman s
ousting All ugly
Itrazen Petrovk: quickly
Imam# dissatisfied with the
Blazers, demanding he lie
traded so he could get a
shot Considering he ended
up in New Jersey, of all
places, with the Nets, of all
teams, he must have been
damn determined to get out
of Portland
The recent breakup of the
modern Blazer "dynasty"
was all too similar Jerome
kersey and Terry Porter
were dumped off like dead
weight, leaving (hem with
no allegiance to thetr onc e
beloved team
The Blazers could never
commit to making Clyde
lirexler their franchise play
er. so they shipped him off
to Houston, where he really
should have started his
career After all. it was in
Houston where Drexler
revived his old bones, won a
championship with his old
buddy Hakeem Ola|uwon
and figured out that he was
going bald, so be should
shave his head Those were
huge strides* in the man s
career
Now Clifford Robinson
and Rod “I love P ) ’ Strick
land are voicing thetr inter
esl in getting out of Purtiand
- or should I say st reaming
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Oregon zones out against Arizona defense
■ WOMEN'S BASKETBALL; Arizona capitalized
on Oregon's poor shooting tor a 56-51 win
By Pete Schneider
Oregon proved in its J8S1 home kw* to An zona what
atl basketball (ana know You ain't beat a zone defense
if you ain't shoot from the outside
Against th«* Wildcat's pressure zone, the Ducks (IS «
overall. 7-7 Pacific 10 Conference) shot a meager 4-17
from thme-point range and missed numerous other king
range jumpers on route to Oregon's second consecu
tive league loss Arizona (17-8. 8 5) only had to score 28
second-half points to secure the victory
"I thought the effort was pitiful," Oregon head coach
Jody Kunge said “1 don't understand why w# thought
this game wasn't important enough to show up and play.
We thought we could Just show up at home and win a
basketball game, but you can't do that “
The Wildcats' stingy zone defense and full court press
forced the Ducks into 19 turnover* and only a 367 shoot
tng percentage from the floor Oregon looked tentative
all night and had much trouble getting into any sort of
offensive rhythm.
The Ducks only went to the free throw line nine time*
during the contest and converted only three shots from
the charity stripe In contrast, Arizona heat a path to the
line 19 limes, hitting 11 shots
"1 can't say that I was proud of the way w» played
tonight," Oregon point guard Cindm hdamura said It *
tough when you *ay that the other team won because
they played larder because that should nev er 1* the case
Tonight they played harder "
Sophomore center Alexander Marie led the way for
!he Wildcats with 16 points white shooting a perfex.l 7
7 form the field Sophomore Adia Barns added eight
rebounds and chipped in 14 points to halt any hope at
an Oregon < umetuK k in the *«* and lialf
rhe Ducks saw their cunferuium leading defense desert
them in the sec ond half, as Oregon was unable to keep
the big Arizona hunt line from M ating down the stretch
"I don't think it was that much of an defensive let
down," said Oregon center Renee Fegent, who scored 14
point* for the Ducks "Our defense deteriorated, but if
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0»*prt» Artarms Boysr * 7-tor-13 ahooftng and 16 potnts. ths Duck* shot 37 psrcsnt
trom ms ftstd as a tssm and couktn 1 ovsrcoms ms Wttdcals Thursday ntghi
Ducks travel to desert, come up cold against Arizona
■ MEN S BASKETBALL:
Oregon went 23-for-79 m
the loss to the Wildcats
By Andrea Oe Young
Ammtarx Spat* t<»*»
Oregon head coach ferry
Green has not been loo thrilled
with the way the men's basket
ball team has had to rely on one
hot handed player to win games
lately. But Green didn't have to
worry about that on Thursday
night as no one on the Oregon
lean: was able to step up and the
Ducks were easily handled by
Ancona *1 63,
The Ducks had an offntght in
shooting, converting on only 23
of-79. Guard Kenya Wilkins,
who lied his scoring high last
weekend against Stanford, could
only manage six points, includ
ing 1 of A in the first half fur two
points.
In the first half. Oregon could
not find the bottom of the net.
scoring only 24 points, famal
Lawrenc e did not score a single
point while Kyle Milling was
only able to manage (nor point*
Terik Brown c ame off the bench
and took nine shots, but only
converted on two
The sec ond half was not too
much better for the Duck* as
they hit only Uef t'J shot* and
2-of-t4 from three point land
Although Arizona did not
play a error free game, commit
ting 17 turnover*, the Ducks
could mg compete and dropped
to 13 12 overall and fi t in ihe
Pacific-10 Conference
For Arizona (20 5 overall. 0-4
Par:-10). the win secured it*
ninth consecutive 20 win tea
son. and brings Ihe Wildcat*
another step closer to their t tth
NC-AA Tournament appearance
in as many year*
The Inside game was expec ted
to be in the spotlight with Ari
zona* Ben Davi* being regarded
a* one of the top player* in the
conference But after Davis
picked up two fouls in the first
two minutes of the game he was
forced to play a relatively <|uiel
game Davis still managed to
scure 15 point* and pull dnwn
13 rebound* and did not puk up
another foul tire rest of the game
Oregon's post players. Milling
and Kob Kamaker, divided the
duty of guarding Davis, hut net
ther could find away around the
Moot u center a* they combined
to score only 10 (mints Kamak
or was able to pull down the
hoards, finishing with a game
high 15
Lawrence, who had 34 points
when Arizona visited Eugene in
January, had a more impressive
second half and ended up lead
ing the Ducks with 14 points,
while Jamar Curry added 12 of
his own Brown continued to
shoot in the second half, but
only converted on l-of-13 three
point shots and ended the game
with 11 paints.
For Arizona. Jason Terry came
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